/skim

Fuzzy Finder in rust!

Primary LanguageRustMIT LicenseMIT

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Life is short, skim!

Half of our life is spent on navigation: files, lines, commands... You need skim! It is a general fuzzy finder that saves you time.

It is blazingly fast as it reads the data source asynchronously.

skim demo

skim provides a single executable: sk, basically anywhere you would want to use grep try sk instead.

Installation

skim project contains several components:

  1. sk executable -- the core.
  2. sk-tmux -- script for launching sk in a tmux plane.
  3. vim/nvim plugin -- to call sk inside vim/nvim. check skim.vim for more vim support.

Linux

Clone this repository and run the install script:

git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:lotabout/skim.git ~/.skim
~/.skim/install

Next: add ~/.skim/bin to your PATH by putting the following line into your ~/.bashrc

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.skim/bin"

As an alternative, you can directly download the sk executable, but extra utilities are recommended.

OSX

Using Homebrew:

brew install sbdchd/skim/skim

But the Linux way described above will also work.

Install as vim plugin

Once you have cloned the repository, add the following line to your .vimrc.

set rtp+=~/.skim

Or you can have vim-plug manage skim (recommended):

Plug 'lotabout/skim', { 'dir': '~/.skim', 'do': './install' }

Build Manually

Clone the repo and run:

cargo build --release

then put the resulting target/release/sk executable on your PATH.

Usage

skim can be used as a general filter(like grep) or as an interactive interface for invoking commands.

As filter

Try the following

# directly invoke skim
sk

# or pipe some input to it: (press TAB key select multiple items with -m enabled)
vim $(find . -name "*.rs" | sk -m)

The above command will allow you to select files with ".rs" extension and open the ones you selected in vim.

As Interactive Interface

skim can invoke other commands dynamically. Normally you would want to integrate it with rg ag or ack for searching contents in a project directory:

# work with ag
sk --ansi -i -c 'ag --color "{}"'
# or with rg
sk --ansi -c 'rg --color=always --line-number "{}"'

interactive mode demo

Key Bindings

Some common used keybindings.

Key Action
Enter Accept (select current one and quit)
ESC/Ctrl-G/Ctrl-Q Abort
Ctrl-P/Up Move cursor up
Ctrl-N/Down Move cursor Down
TAB Toggle selection and move down (with -m)
Shift-TAB Toggle selection and move up (with -m)

Search Syntax

skim borrowed fzf's syntax for matching items:

Token Match type Description
text fuzzy-match items that match text
^music prefix-exact-match items that start with music
.mp3$ suffix-exact-match items that end with .mp3
'wild exact-match (quoted) items that include wild
!fire inverse-exact-match items that do not include fire
!.mp3$ inverse-suffix-exact-match items that do not end with .mp3

skim also support the combination of tokens.

  • space has the meaning of AND. With the term src main, skim will search for items that match both src and main.
  • | means OR (note the spaces around |). With the term .md$ | .markdown$, skim will search for items ends with either .md or .markdown.
  • OR have higher precedence. So readme .md$ | .markdown$ is groupped into readme AND (.md$ OR .markdown$).

In case that you want to use regular expressions, skim provide regex mode:

sk --regex

You can switch to regex mode dynamically by pressing Ctrl-R (Rotate Mode).

exit code

Exit Code Meaning
0 Exit normally
1 No Match found
130 Abort by Ctrl-C/Ctrl-G/ESC/etc...

Customization

skim can be customized with lots of options. You can use them to create new bash/zsh/.. functions by yourself. Use your imagination :)

Key binding & Actions

Specify the bindings with comma seperated pairs(no space allowed), example:

sk --bind 'alt-a:select-all,alt-d:deselect-all'

Action Default key
abort esc, ctrl-c, ctrl-g, ctrl-q
accept enter
backward-char left, ctrl-b
backward-delete-char ctrl-h, backspace
backward-kill-word alt-backspace
backward-word alt-b, shift-left
beginning-of-line ctrl-a
cancel None
clear-screen ctrl-l
delete-char del
delete-charEOF ctrl-d
deselect-all None
down ctrl-j, ctrl-n, down
end-of-line ctrl-e, end
forward-char ctrl-f, right
forward-word alt-f, shift-right
ignore None
kill-line ctrl-k
kill-word alt-d
page-down page-down
page-up page-up
rotate-mode ctrl-r
scroll-left alt-h
scroll-right alt-l
select-all None
toggle None
toggle-all None
toggle-down tab
toggle-interactive ctrl-q
toggle-out None
toggle-sort None
toggle-up shift-tab
unix-line-discard ctrl-u
unix-word-rubout ctrl-w
up ctrl-p, ctrl-k, up

Sort criterion

There are four sort keys for results: score, index, begin, end, you can specify how the records are sorted by sk --tiebreak score,index,-begin or any other order you want.

Color Scheme

It is a high chance that you are a better artist than me. Luckily you won't be stuck with the default colors, skim supports customization of the color scheme.

--color=[BASE_SCHEME][,COLOR:ANSI]

The configuration of colors starts with the name of the base color scheme and followed by custom color mappings. For example:

sk --color=current_bg:24
sk --color=light,fg:232,bg:255,current_bg:116,info:27

You can choose the BASE SCHEME among the following(default: dark on 256-color terminal, otherwise 16):

Base Scheme Description
dark Color scheme for dark 256-color terminal
light Color scheme for light 256-color terminal
16 Color scheme for 16-color terminal
bw No colors

While the customisable COLORs are

Color Description
fg Text
bg Background
matched Text color of matched items
matched_bg Background color of matched items
current Text color (current line)
current_bg Background color (current line)
current_match Text color of matched items (current line)
current_match_bg Background color of matched items (current line)
spinner Streaming input indicator
info Info area
prompt Prompt
cursor Cursor
selected Text color of "selected" indicator

Misc

  • --ansi: to parse ANSI color codes(e.g \e[32mABC) of the data source
  • --regex: use the query as regular expression to match the data source

Interactive mode

In interactive mode, sk will pass the query to the command you specified and present the output to you. You can specify the command using the -c option:

sk -i -c 'ag --color "{}"'

In the above example, the replace string {} will be replaced with the query you type before invoking the command. Use -I <replstr> to change replstr if you want.

For example, with the input "hello" in interactive mode, skim will replace the above command with ag --color "hello" and invoke it.

If you want to further narrow down the result returned by the command, press Ctrl-Q to toggle interactive mode.

Fields support

Normally only plugin users need to understand this.

For example, you have the data source with the format:

<filename>:<line number>:<column number>

However, you want to search <filename> only when typing in queries. That means when you type 21, you want to find a <filename> that contains 21, but not matching line number or column number.

You can use sk --delimiter ':' --nth 0 to achieve this.

Also you can use --with-nth to re-arrange the order of fields.

Range Syntax

  • <num> -- to specify the num-th fields, starting with 0.
  • start.. -- starting from the start-th fields, and the rest.
  • ..end -- starting from the 0-th field, all the way to end-th field, excluding end.
  • start..end -- starting from start-th field, all the way to end-th field, excluding end.

Difference to fzf

fzf is a command-line fuzzy finder written in Go and skim tries to implement a new one in Rust!

This project is written from scratch. Some decisions of implementation are different from fzf. For example:

  1. The fuzzy search algorithm is different.
  2. UI of showing matched items. fzf will show only the range matched while skim will show each character matched.
  3. skim has an interactive mode.
  4. skim's range syntax is git style.

How to contribute

Create new issues if you meet any bugs or have any ideas. Pull requests are warmly welcomed.